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...about as big as the earth and has an atmosphere, but it seems even less attractive as real estate than the airless, sun-seared moon. Its atmosphere is so cloudy that outsiders, peering from the earth, can see only its slightly yellowish cloud deck, which sometimes shows faint, impermanent markings...
...ruling Maharajah, 65-year-old Sir Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has not been tracking the rocket, since it is "much too faint to be seen with the telescope," according to J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Observatory. However, Hynek added that the rocket "will definitely orbit at a calculable distance...
...undergraduates below the age of reason recall the glorious four-sided clock of golden arms that once perched atop Memorial Hall. Destroyed in a fire over two years ago, only a faint echo of its booming voice is heard to remind Harvard of a time when men of high degree and low measured their affairs by its authority...
...research that led to the award began in 1934, when Cherenkov. then 30, noticed a bluish glow where gamma rays from radium were striking through water in a flask. The glow was exceedingly faint, and a less curious man might have put it aside as ordinary fluorescence, which is given off by many materials when struck by gamma rays. But Cherenkov's mysterious light proved to be strongly polarized, had a continuous (rainbow-like) spectrum, and was given off predominantly in the direction of the gamma rays...